Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Secure remote backup

2006-11-06 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag, 4. November 2006 13:56 schrieb ext Dan Johansson: Me and a friend are looking into the possibility to do cross-site-remote-backups (I'm backing up my data to a directory in his box and he on mine). We want the connection and remote-storage to encrypted and we do not want to open

Re: [gentoo-user] ntp-client doesn't start

2006-11-06 Thread John Blinka
Roger Mason wrote: I may be leading you astray, but that IP address looks like one for a private net. Is ntp-client looking on that private net for a time-server? It is a private net, but ntp-client is looking at pool.ntp.org for the time server. John -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Secure remote backup

2006-11-06 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
Dan Johansson wrote: cross-site-remote-backups Erm, Me too... My first attempt centred on Duplicity - which, on the surface, seemed to be exactly what I wanted... but, unfortunately, it is unusably buggy... and is no longer in avtive development. My second (in-progress) attempt is with

[gentoo-user] sys-apps/kbd-1.12-r8

2006-11-06 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
Does anyone else have problems like this? # emerge -uDNav world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating world dependencies... done! [ebuild U ] sys-apps/kbd-1.12-r8 [1.12-r7] USE=nls 0 kB Total size of downloads: 0 kB Would you like to merge these

Re: [gentoo-user] Mini Gentoo in VMWare

2006-11-06 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 2 Nov 2006 22:43:40 -0700 Trenton Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone here played with minimalizing everything for use in vmware? No, not for that use, but for other uses, yes. But you need to specify what exactly you mean by saying minimized. I wouldn't go the road and use

Re: [gentoo-user] Mini Gentoo in VMWare

2006-11-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 6 Nov 2006 13:50:35 +0100, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: If you want to strip down documentation, locales and stuff, have a look at the scripting facilities of portage: e.g. put this into /etc/portage/bashrc (on the master chroot, if you go with a buildhost): ---snip post_src_install() {

Re: [gentoo-user] Networking problems

2006-11-06 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sat, 4 Nov 2006 07:24:51 -0500 (GMT-05:00) Jeff Cranmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For the /etc/resolv.conf file, I have: search belkin nameserver 192.168.2.1 nameserver 207.69.188.185 nameserver 207.69.188.186 nameserver 207.69.188.187 Given that the router runs a local DNS

Re: [gentoo-user] WinXP under VMWare: no sound

2006-11-06 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sun, 5 Nov 2006 12:55:58 +0100 Sergio Polini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since vmware-dsp (which is ~amd64) doesn't compile, I have: - emerged alsa-oss - chmod +s /usr/lib/libaoss.so.* ^^^ Why did you do that? Try setting it back and then use LD_PRELOAD. Your normal user account can't

Re: [gentoo-user] distfiles on samba and 2.6.18

2006-11-06 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 06 Nov 2006 00:09:23 +1100 Dave Oxley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since upgrading to the 2.6.18 kernel I get this on my client machine when trying to emerge. I have distfiles mapped to a server samba share and this works if I boot back up into 2.6.17. Does anyone have any ideas how

Re: [gentoo-user] sanba mount on host machine

2006-11-06 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sun, 05 Nov 2006 13:47:12 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this possible withou really negative impact of some sort. If this is a question (please clarify a bit, and use question marks when appropriate!): Of course it has a negative impact -- opposed to built-in storage, which should

[gentoo-user] Stability Testing of a new server

2006-11-06 Thread Timothy A. Holmes
Hi folks: I just finished building a new server running gentoo. Before I begin the application installs and start preparing it for prodcution, id like to test it a bit to see if its stable, I don't really know how I would do this, or if its even possible. The build is a little unusual, in that

[gentoo-user] Changing the NIC name

2006-11-06 Thread Timothy A. Holmes
Hi folks I have a snort server that I am building that has 2 nics in it One is a 10/100 realtec The other is a 10/100/1000 Intel Pro1000 As the machine built, the realtech is eth0 and the intel is eth1 I would like to reverse those two names, so that snort can use the higher capacity card for

[gentoo-user] OT Good DNS registrar?

2006-11-06 Thread James
Hello, I'm looking for a good DNS registrar, where I provide my own primary and secondary service. Maybe one that will provide some secondary service. I did find this list, but most seem to be just selling DNS bundled with indigenous web hosting:

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing the NIC name

2006-11-06 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 6 Nov 2006 09:09:40 -0500 Timothy A. Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As the machine built, the realtech is eth0 and the intel is eth1 I would like to reverse those two names, so that snort can use the higher capacity card for its sniffer. I am not quite sure where to look even

[gentoo-user] Kopete plugins dissapeared

2006-11-06 Thread Rafael Barrera Oro
I recently emerged modular kde, and along with the coming of kopete 0.12.3 all the plugins dissapeared except for the Cryptography plugin, does anyone now something about this? should i just re emerge it? Thanks in advance! Rafael -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing the NIC name

2006-11-06 Thread Novensiles divi Flamen
On Monday 06 November 2006 21:59, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: I would like to reverse those two names, so that snort can use the higher capacity card for its sniffer. I am not quite sure where to look even to begin this process. You can give arbitrary names to those interfaces by

Re: [gentoo-user] Kopete plugins dissapeared

2006-11-06 Thread Raymond Lewis Rebbeck
On Monday 06 November 2006 22:33, Rafael Barrera Oro wrote: I recently emerged modular kde, and along with the coming of kopete 0.12.3 all the plugins dissapeared except for the Cryptography plugin, does anyone now something about this? should i just re emerge it? Thanks in advance! Rafael

Re: [gentoo-user] Kopete plugins dissapeared

2006-11-06 Thread Rafael Barrera Oro
Raymond Lewis Rebbeck wrote: On Monday 06 November 2006 22:33, Rafael Barrera Oro wrote: I recently emerged modular kde, and along with the coming of kopete 0.12.3 all the plugins dissapeared except for the Cryptography plugin, does anyone now something about this? should i just re emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] Kopete plugins dissapeared

2006-11-06 Thread Mrugesh Karnik
On Monday 06 November 2006 18:22, Rafael Barrera Oro wrote: One flag per each plugin? I am mainly interested in the history plugin do you know which flag i need? where i can find a list of kopete flags? Thanks for your reply emerge -pv1 kopete ;-) --

Re: [gentoo-user] Kopete plugins dissapeared

2006-11-06 Thread Raymond Lewis Rebbeck
On Monday 06 November 2006 23:22, Rafael Barrera Oro wrote: Raymond Lewis Rebbeck wrote: On Monday 06 November 2006 22:33, Rafael Barrera Oro wrote: I recently emerged modular kde, and along with the coming of kopete 0.12.3 all the plugins dissapeared except for the Cryptography plugin, does

RE: [gentoo-user] Changing the NIC name

2006-11-06 Thread Timothy A. Holmes
On Monday 06 November 2006 21:59, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: I would like to reverse those two names, so that snort can use the higher capacity card for its sniffer. I am not quite sure where to look even to begin this process. You can give arbitrary names to those interfaces

RE: [gentoo-user] Stability Testing of a new server

2006-11-06 Thread Timothy A. Holmes
On 11/6/06, Timothy A. Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just finished building a new server running Gentoo. Before I begin the application installs and start preparing it for production, id like to test it a bit to see if its stable, I don't really know how I would do this, or

Re: [gentoo-user] Mini Gentoo in VMWare

2006-11-06 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Monday 06 November 2006 14:27, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 6 Nov 2006 13:50:35 +0100, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: If you want to strip down documentation, locales and stuff, have a look at the scripting facilities of portage: e.g. put this into /etc/portage/bashrc (on the master chroot, if

Re: [gentoo-user] Stability Testing of a new server

2006-11-06 Thread Novensiles divi Flamen
On Monday 06 November 2006 23:35, Timothy A. Holmes wrote: I think running the build in a testing environment first is your best bet. -Mike Mike: I agree and in essence this is what I have done, the system is built and sitting there, what I need to know is how to test the system in

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Win4Lin

2006-11-06 Thread Jason Weisberger
!!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request:- app-emulation/win4lin-5.1.1 (masked by: package.mask)# J. Alberto Suárez López [EMAIL PROTECTED] (13 Oct 2006)# Masked pending removal for 13 Nov 2006.# netraverse don't support gentoo more, and users can# use the

Re: [gentoo-user] OT Good DNS registrar?

2006-11-06 Thread Daniel Iliev
James wrote: Hello, I'm looking for a good DNS registrar, where I provide my own primary and secondary service. Maybe one that will provide some secondary service. I did find this list, but most seem to be just selling DNS bundled with indigenous web hosting:

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing the NIC name

2006-11-06 Thread Daniel Iliev
Timothy A. Holmes wrote: On Monday 06 November 2006 21:59, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: I would like to reverse those two names, so that snort can use the higher capacity card for its sniffer. I am not quite sure where to look even to begin this

OT - Where are the modules (WAS: Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Win4Lin)

2006-11-06 Thread Michael Sullivan
I went to www.netraverse.com and found out that the newest patch for Win4Lin for SMP kernels is 2.6.11. I have to tell you that no kernel I've ever built myself (as in without genkernel) has booted. I downloaded 2.6.11 kernel source from www.kernel.org , and it seems to have built correctly. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing the NIC name

2006-11-06 Thread Michael Schreckenbauer
Hi, Am Montag, 6. November 2006 15:09 schrieb Timothy A. Holmes: Hi folks I have a snort server that I am building that has 2 nics in it One is a 10/100 realtec The other is a 10/100/1000 Intel Pro1000 As the machine built, the realtech is eth0 and the intel is eth1 I would like to reverse

Re: OT - Where are the modules (WAS: Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Win4Lin)

2006-11-06 Thread Matthias Langer
On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 12:08 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: I went to www.netraverse.com and found out that the newest patch for Win4Lin for SMP kernels is 2.6.11. I have to tell you that no kernel I've ever built myself (as in without genkernel) has booted. I downloaded 2.6.11 kernel source

Re: [gentoo-user] Mini Gentoo in VMWare

2006-11-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 6 Nov 2006 18:20:10 +0100, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: Or use FEATURES=nodoc noman noinfo, provided you are using a recent enough portage, I'm unsure of when this was introduced. It's was introduced before portage-2.0.50. :) OK, so recent enough = 2.0.50 :) It's still not

[gentoo-user] Re: sanba mount on host machine

2006-11-06 Thread Harry Putnam
Hans-Werner Hilse [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, On Sun, 05 Nov 2006 13:47:12 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this possible withou really negative impact of some sort. If this is a question (please clarify a bit, and use question marks when appropriate!): Of course it has a negative

[gentoo-user] Re: sanba mount on host machine

2006-11-06 Thread reader
Hans-Werner Hilse [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, On Sun, 05 Nov 2006 13:47:12 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this possible withou really negative impact of some sort. If this is a question (please clarify a bit, and use question marks when appropriate!): Of course it has a negative

Re: [gentoo-user] Mini Gentoo in VMWare

2006-11-06 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Monday 06 November 2006 19:53, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 6 Nov 2006 18:20:10 +0100, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: Or use FEATURES=nodoc noman noinfo, provided you are using a recent enough portage, I'm unsure of when this was introduced. It's was introduced before portage-2.0.50. :)

[gentoo-user] Re: ntp-client doesn't start

2006-11-06 Thread reader
John Blinka [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a very old Dell P150ST laptop that I try to maintain Gentoo on. Every time I boot it, it complains ERROR: cannot start ntp-client as net.eth0 could not be started. One way that will probably work is to start ntp-client from

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sanba mount on host machine

2006-11-06 Thread James Ausmus
On 11/6/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hans-Werner Hilse [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, On Sun, 05 Nov 2006 13:47:12 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this possible withou really negative impact of some sort. If this is a question (please clarify a bit, and use question

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ntp-client doesn't start

2006-11-06 Thread John Blinka
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One way that will probably work is to start ntp-client from /etc/conf.d/local-start local-start is the very last thing called during a bootup so if timing is the problem this would be a way to skirt around it. Just put whatever commands start ntp-client in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ntp-client doesn't start

2006-11-06 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Monday 06 November 2006 19:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Blinka [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a very old Dell P150ST laptop that I try to maintain Gentoo on. Every time I boot it, it complains ERROR: cannot start ntp-client as net.eth0 could not be started. One way that will

[gentoo-user] Re: Newbie stuck at starting gate

2006-11-06 Thread Mick
This may be because you have not configured the firewall of your VNC server machine and, or you have not set up port forwarding on your router (if you connect to the Internet via a router). This is covered in the FAQs. If you are going to allow connections on your WinXP firewall, it is safer

Re: [gentoo-user] WinXP under VMWare: no sound

2006-11-06 Thread Sergio Polini
Hans-Werner Hilse: On Sun, 5 Nov 2006 12:55:58 +0100 Sergio Polini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since vmware-dsp (which is ~amd64) doesn't compile, I have: - emerged alsa-oss - chmod +s /usr/lib/libaoss.so.* ^^^ Why did you do that? I did that because, as far as I have understood, I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Newbie stuck at starting gate

2006-11-06 Thread Michael Crute
On 11/6/06, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This may be because you have not configured the firewall of your VNC server machine and, or you have not set up port forwarding on your router (if you connect to the Internet via a router). This is covered in the FAQs. If you are going to allow

Re: [gentoo-user] Mini Gentoo in VMWare

2006-11-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 6 Nov 2006 20:23:49 +0100, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: It's still not mentioned in /etc/make.conf.example :( It's in `man make.conf`. I know. The example was never intended to be complete. Still surprising though, when much newer features are documented in the example file. --

Re: [gentoo-user] Mini Gentoo in VMWare

2006-11-06 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Monday 06 November 2006 23:52, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 6 Nov 2006 20:23:49 +0100, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: It's still not mentioned in /etc/make.conf.example :( It's in `man make.conf`. I know. The example was never intended to be complete. Still surprising though, when

[gentoo-user] Determine kernel release of non-running kernel

2006-11-06 Thread Tim Garton
Anyone know how to determine the kernel release of a non-running kernel? Like 'uname -r' but point it at a kernel file?Tim

Re: [gentoo-user] Determine kernel release of non-running kernel

2006-11-06 Thread Sergio Polini
Tim Garton: Anyone know how to determine the kernel release of a non-running kernel? Like 'uname -r' but point it at a kernel file? $ strings kernel file | head -20 ;-) ... but I don't know how to automate that. HTH Sergio -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Determine kernel release of non-running kernel

2006-11-06 Thread Andrey
On Monday 06 November 2006 23:50, Tim Garton wrote: Anyone know how to determine the kernel release of a non-running kernel? Like 'uname -r' but point it at a kernel file? I didn't understand the problem... What about: ls /lib/modules/ ? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Determine kernel release of non-running kernel

2006-11-06 Thread Justin Findlay
On AD 2006 November 07 Tuesday 12:59:03 AM +0100, Sergio Polini wrote: Tim Garton: Anyone know how to determine the kernel release of a non-running kernel? Like 'uname -r' but point it at a kernel file? $ strings kernel file | head -20 $ strings /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18 | grep 2\.6\.[0-9]\+

Re: [gentoo-user] Determine kernel release of non-running kernel

2006-11-06 Thread Tim Garton
Thanks, Sergio, that worked like a charm. The string I wanted wasn't actually in the first 20 lines so a 'strings /tmp/vmlinuz | grep 2.6' worked better.Audrey, I wanted information about a kernel that was built by somebody else on another machine, so I don't have access to the applicable

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-apps/kbd-1.12-r8

2006-11-06 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Monday 06 November 2006 12:53, Steve [Gentoo] wrote: Compiling source in /var/tmp/portage/kbd-1.12-r8/work/kbd-1.12 ... Configuring for PREFIX=/usr Configuring for DATADIR=/usr/share Configuring for MANDIR=/usr/share/man checking for gcc ./configure: 151: Syntax error: Bad

[gentoo-user] X server runs out of file descriptors

2006-11-06 Thread Vladimir G. Ivanovic
My X server (xorg-server-1.1.1-r1; USE flags below) churns through file descriptors at the rate of ~15/hour (on AMD64). Eventually, it reaches the 255 open file limit and I can no longer open any new windows. A snippet from ls -l /proc/X pid/fd: lrwx-- 1 root root 64 Nov 6 18:41 126 -

[gentoo-user] [OT]Real compute cycles in a laptop?

2006-11-06 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I'm in the market for a new laptop. I sold mine about a year ago and it's time to get a new one. I will run both Linux and Win XP on the machine. The Linux workload will not be anything substantial but when in Win XP I have a program that I'll be running that is very compute bound on my

[gentoo-user] Re: sanba mount on host machine

2006-11-06 Thread reader
James Ausmus [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Rephrasing the question: Will it work to mount a hosts (gentoo host) native onboard drives as cifs mounts only. These drives would all be formatted NTFS In short - no. Samba/CIFS are *network* filesystems - you can't format a partition with a Samba

[gentoo-user] X crashes randomly

2006-11-06 Thread Erik
Hello, Starting today, X has been acting a little strange for me. I'll be doing nothing to spectacularer in kde, like typing in openoffice or something else like that, and all of the sudden, X restarts and I am faced with kdm. I don't know if this is a problem with something in kde, kdm, or X,

Re: [gentoo-user] X crashes randomly

2006-11-06 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
try a revdep-rebuilt. A lot of such crashs are caused by some changed dependencies. (oh, and you can remove the BusID line from your xorg.conf. It won't make your problem go away, but you don't need it too. Or do you have several cards installed?). -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] USB mass storage - WD My Book

2006-11-06 Thread Adrian
Greetings. Wondering if anyone can help me out on this. I got a Western Digital My Book, 500G -- and it's not happy with my main computer. I tried it on a Windows system and my other computer, running 2.6.17-r8, and it's happy there. So the drive is working. However on this box, running

Re: [gentoo-user] USB mass storage - WD My Book

2006-11-06 Thread Novensiles divi Flamen
On Tuesday 07 November 2006 12:22, Adrian wrote: Mon Nov 06 22:18:38 ~ root $ mount /dev/sda /mnt/500G/ mount: you must specify the filesystem type Mon Nov 06 22:20:39 ~ root $ mount /dev/sda /mnt/500G/ -t vfat mount: special device /dev/sda does

Re: [gentoo-user] X crashes randomly

2006-11-06 Thread Jesús Guerrero
Hi, I would try without any of these: Option AllowGLXWithComposite true Option AddARGBGLXVisuals true Section Extensions Option Composite true EndSection You say that you are not running packages in ~arch and I must believe so, but that config seems to

Re: [gentoo-user] WinXP under VMWare: no sound

2006-11-06 Thread Richard Fish
Sorry for the late reply...I've been away for a couple of days. On 11/4/06, Sergio Polini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: `/var/tmp/portage/vmware-dsp-1.3/work/vmwaredsp-1.3/src/32' cc -c -W -Wall -O2 -fPIC -o vmdsp.o ../vmdsp.c cc -shared -Wl,-version-script=../vmdsp.map -o libvmdsp.so vmdsp.o

Re: [gentoo-user] USB mass storage - WD My Book

2006-11-06 Thread Adrian
On Tue, 7 Nov 2006 11:43:18 +0700 Novensiles divi Flamen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote the words: On Tuesday 07 November 2006 12:22, Adrian wrote: Mon Nov 06 22:18:38 ~ root $ mount /dev/sda /mnt/500G/ mount: you must specify the filesystem type Mon

Re: [gentoo-user] WinXP under VMWare: no sound

2006-11-06 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/5/06, Sergio Polini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: #!/bin/bash LD_PRELOAD=libaoss.so exec /opt/vmware/workstation/bin/vmware Now: i) if I run the script as myself, sound doesn't work and I get ERROR: ld.so: object 'libaoss.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored. This is the same

Re: [gentoo-user] WinXP under VMWare: no sound

2006-11-06 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/6/06, Sergio Polini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I suspect that there is a glibc problem: http://www.vmware.com/community/message.jspa?messageID=26228 Look at the posts by... Richard Fish ;-) Nah, not the same problem. In my case it was a gentoo-specific glibc patch that was messing up. I

Re: [gentoo-user] WinXP under VMWare: no sound

2006-11-06 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Tuesday 07 November 2006 06:44, Richard Fish wrote: On 11/4/06, Sergio Polini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: `/var/tmp/portage/vmware-dsp-1.3/work/vmwaredsp-1.3/src/32' cc -c -W -Wall -O2 -fPIC -o vmdsp.o ../vmdsp.c cc -shared -Wl,-version-script=../vmdsp.map -o libvmdsp.so vmdsp.o  

Re: [gentoo-user] USB mass storage - WD My Book

2006-11-06 Thread Novensiles divi Flamen
On Tuesday 07 November 2006 12:22, Adrian wrote: --- Mon Nov 06 22:21:41 ~ root $ mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/500G/ mount: you must specify the filesystem type Mon Nov 06 23:45:07 ~ root $ mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/500G/ -t vfat mount: special device /dev/sda1 does